Seventy American sailors and marines occupy Yerba…

July 1846 CE

Seventy American sailors and marines occupy Yerba Buena on July 9, claiming California for the United States and and raise the American flag.

Later that day in Sonoma, the Bear Flag is lowered and the American flag is raised in its place.

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Jacksonian Democracy (United States) View → “Manifest Destiny” and American Expansion; 1840-1851 View → Mexican-American War View → Bear Flag Revolt View →

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